Burial-vault.



G. e. B ABICH.

BURIAL VAULT.

. APPLICATION FILED SEPT-22, 1914. RENEWED OCT- 29,1915.

Patented June 6; 1916.

2 SHEETSSHEET 2- Ww/M THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAFH c0.. WASHINGTON, n c.

. 'NED STA PA E- GEORGE G. BABICI-I, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO BABICH BURIAL VAULT COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

BURIAL-VAULT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 6, 1916.

Application'filed September 22, 1914, Serial No. 862,933. Renewed October 29, 1915. Serial No. 58,729.

I To calla/27mm it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE G. BABICH, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain newv and useful Improvements in Burial-Vaults, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to burial vaults, and has for its object to provide a portable inclosure for caskets which will hermetically seal the same and withstand the efforts of unauthorized persons to obtain access to the casket or its contents. 7

Another object is to provide an outer casing or mold of improved construction and having perforated walls, for forming an inner casing of concrete or other suitable plastic material around the casket.

A further object is to provide improved means for reinforcing and binding the inner plastic casing about the' casket, especially for, protecting the top of the casket and for preventing the top and sides thereof from swelling under the influence of the moisturein the plastic material when first placed around the casket in the mold or outer casing.

Other objects will appear as the description proceeds.

The invention will be first hereinafter de scribed in connection with the accompanying drawings, which constitute a part of this specification, and then more specifically defined in the claims at the end of the description.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters are used to designate corresponding parts in the several views; Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of a burial vault constructed in ac cordance with this invention, the casket being shown in elevation. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a detailed plan view of the inner reinforcing 7 material is poured into the outer casing or mold, and F ig. 6 is a detailed planview of one corner of the outer reinforcing material as it appears before it is bent up at the sides and ends of the casket.

The outer casing or mold A may be of wood or other suitable inexpensive material and is provided with small perforations in its side and end walls and also in its bottom, as at a in Figs. 1, 2, 4 and 5, for the purpose of allowing moisture from the inner plastic casing to quickly escape and thus hasten the hardening of said plastic material. The inside walls of the outer casing are braced by one or more horizontal strips of suitable material as along the upper edges thereof or ing A is of a size to insure its sides, ends and cover also being spaced away fromthe casket.

The outer reinforcing -means comprises wire mesh material E which is initially formed in the shape of'a cross, having its. middle portion 6 adapted to be arranged below the casket, and its four projectingportions adapted to extendupward at the sides andends of the casket. The projecting p0r-' tions of the reinforcing material E, which extend at the sides of the casket, are designated e, and the other projecting portions of said reinforcing material, which extend at the endsof the casket, are indicated at 6 The body portion 6 of the reinforcing material E may be secured tothe supporting plates C by strands of wire F, or other suitable means, in order to position said reinforcing means about centrally of the outer casing. Larger rods C are also secured to the supporting plates C, above the wire mesh E by the wires F, for the purpose of spacing the casket D some distance above the wire mesh E. The casket D is wrapped in suitable waterproofing material D to prevent the moisture in the plastic material from causing the casket to swell, whichwaterproof material is secured in place by wires D before being placed upon the supports C. Secured to the bottom of the outer casing are wires D which are fastened above the casket D, to secure the same firmlyin place upon the supports and prevent the same from floating when the plastic material is placed in the casing.

As illustrated in Fig. 4, the extreme end portions of the projecting parts 6 and e of the reinforcing material E, extend some distance above the top of the casket after the latter is put in place so as to rest upon the body portion 6 of said reinforcing material E. Before these upwardly projecting extreme'end portions of the parts 6 and c are bent downward and inward so as to overlap and cover the top of the casket, as illus trated in Fig. 3, the inner reinforcing device Gr is slipped over the top of the casket, as shown, the same being spaced from the top and sides of the casket. This inner reinforcing device comprises a plurality of straight longitudinal wires of heavy gage and transverse heavy gage wires, the latter being bent into the form of an inverted U so as to extend across the top and down the sides of the casket. This inner reinforcing device having considerable rigidity, and being spaced away from the casket, will hold the reinforcing material E the proper distance from the top, sides and ends of the casket and in substantially a central position in the plastic material betweenthe casket and the outer casing.

After the inner reinforcing device G has been introduced as explained, and the extreme end portions of the parts 6 and e of the outer reinforcing member E have been folded down over the top of the casket, tie wires A are secured to the sides so as to extend across the upper portion of the outer casing for preventing said casing from spreading, see Fig. of the drawings. Concrete or other suitable plastic material H is then poured into the outer casing or mold to fill the space between the same and the casket all. around the latter as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

In actual experience it has been discovered that to properly distribute a uniform thickness of the plastic material, jolting or shaking of the casing must be resorted to. In order to properly distribute the plastic material, I have provided the ends of the outer casing with loops A the wires forming the loops being extended downward as at A and secured to the bottom of the outer casing. By attaching ropes or hooks to the loops, A the casing may be shaken or olted to cause the proper distribution of the plastic material. Before the last of the plastic material is poured in, the loops A are bent down, as shown in Fig. 1, so that they will be embedded in the upper portion of tegral parts of the inner casing of concrete or plastic material, and said reinforcing elements will bind said plastic material at the top of the casket as well as at the sides, ends and bottom thereof, so as to effectually prevent unauthorized persons from obtaining access to the casket or its contents. At the same time, the vault or casing inclosing the casket may be raised and moved as a whole without exposing the casket or the remains therein, so that by the use of this improvement, bodies may be transferred from one locality or cemetery to another without the usual unpleasant experiences.

Further improvements on a burial vault of this type are covered in my co-pending application filed July 24, 1915, Ser. No. 41,642.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to'secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. A burial vault comprising an outer casing constituting a mold for forming an inner casing of plastic material to envelop a casket, reinforcing material arranged in the outer casing to entirely envelop the casket, and loops secured to the bottom of said outer casing and projecting above the top thereof for the attachment of ropes for jolting said casing to settle the plastic material therein and around the casket, said loops being adapted to be bent over and embedded in the upper portion'o-f the plastic material before it is set. V

2. A burial vault comprising an outer casing constituting a mold for forming an inner casing of plastic material to envelop a casket, said outer casing having perforations in its sides for the purpose specified, and tying means passed through certain of said perforations and extending across said outer casing above the casket for preventing said outer casing from spreading, said tying meansbeing embedded in the inner casing of plastic material.

3. A burial vault comprising an outer casing constituting a mold for forming an inner casing of plastic material to envelop a casket and come in direct contact with it on all sides, reinforcing open mesh material in the plastic inner casing, brackets on the bottom of the outer casing for supporting said reinforcing material in spaced relationthereto, spacing devices arranged between the reinforcing material and the bottom of the casket, and means passed through said reinforcing material for securing said spacing devices and reinforcing material to said brackets.

4:. A burial vault comprising a reinforced outer casing constituting a mold for forming an inner casing of plastic material to envelop a casket, said casket being Wrapped in waterproofing material, and a cross-shaped sheet of reinforcing material having its body portion arranged below the casket and spaced therefrom, the extending portions of said sheet being bent upwardly at the sides and ends of the casket and projecting above said casket whenthe latter is put in place, said projecting portions being turned down over the top of the casket before the plastic material is poured into the outer casing and said projecting portions being of sufficient length to overlap one another so as to completely envelop the casket.

5. A burial vault comprlsing an outer casing constituting a mold for forming an inner casing of plastic material to envelop a casket, reinforcing means for enveloping the casket in the casing, transverse brackets for supporting the reinforcing means away from the bottom of the casing, and transverse rods arranged above the bottom of said reinforcing means and along said brackets for spacing the bottom of the casket from the bottom of said reinforcing means.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two attesting witnesses.

GEORGE G. BABICH.'

Witnesses:

WM. M. CHRISTIE, E. STENERNAGEL.

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Washington, D. G." 

